A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生日
Birthday
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
手工制作的礼物很吓人，因为它们表明你有太多的自由时间。
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
你越是赞美和庆祝你的生活，生活中就越有值得庆祝的事情。
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
对于年轻人来说，每过一个生日，大多数事情的愤怒就会激增。
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
我喜欢摄影。我男朋友有一个很棒的照相机，这是我为他的生日买的。
‘They gave it me,’ Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully... ‘for an un-birthday present.’
“他们给了我，”胖墩儿若有所思地继续说……“作为非生日礼物。”
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
如果丈夫给妻子买了一只电锅作为生日礼物，朋友永远不会为他辩护。
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
我的父亲给了我最好的礼物，任何人都可以给别人，他相信我。
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
老年人相信一切;中年人什么都怀疑，年轻人什么都知道。
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
我记得蜡烛店被烧毁的时候。每个人都站在周围唱着“生日快乐”。
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
妈妈问我想要什么生日礼物，所以我说我想和她一起读诗。
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
你能给别人最好的礼物就是无条件的爱和接受。
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
当我忘记了所有的生日，包括我自己的生日，发现有人记得我，这是多么美好的一件事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born I suppose on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
生日吗?是的，一般说来;我想，你是在某一天出生的，我也是，或者也许是在夜里出生的。然后呢?
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
直到那时，我快四十岁了，我才把哲学作为我一生的事业。
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
我的生日礼物是一台加湿器和一台除湿器……我把他们放在同一个房间里，让他们打起来。
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
如果你回顾这些年来，风格已经改变了——衣服，发型，制作，歌曲的方式。蛋糕上的糖霜改变了口味。但是如果你仔细观察蛋糕本身，它其实是一样的。
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.
如果我的生日有一样东西是我真正想要的，那就是矿业公司不要动用我爸爸的储备金。
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
她从头到尾灯火通明，看上去就像一个下垂的生日蛋糕。